Author: Zech

Moving is one of the most stressful events in life. The average American moves 11 times, so it’s something most people will experience multiple times. Aside from the stress of packing and unpacking, starting a new job or school, and finding new doctors, vets, and friends, there’s also the nerve-wracking process of finding movers. But just as AI is trying to help us live healthier and tell our life stories, it might help make moving some of the pain less painful. At least, AI startup WeMove hopes it can. There are many areas in the current situation that need improvement.…

The Manhattan Project was a response to German technological innovation and military might that unleashed nuclear physics on the world. Its success put the United States at the forefront of significant technological advances and demonstrated that technological innovation was at the heart of both economic prosperity and national security. Today, in a new era of strategic competition with an authoritarian China, liberal democracies, including smaller groupings like Quad, AUKUS, and NATO, are identifying their own modern-day Manhattan Projects. The Australian government announced earlier this year that it would invest around $1 billion in PsiQuantum, confirming that Australia is targeting quantum…

How about this as an opening statement for DARPA from Joe Altepeter, DARPA program manager leading the just-announced Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), a successor to the agency’s previous programs, Quantum Benchmarking (QB) and Unexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC). “Our starting position is skepticism – specifically, skepticism that a fully fault-tolerant quantum computer with a sufficient number of logical qubits can be built. We would walk into a room and say, ‘Whatever you’re doing is almost certainly not going to work.’ I would bring in a small army of scientists and engineers, listen to your evidence, and double and…

Serve Robotics Inc. SERV shares are rising in after-hours trading on Thursday as momentum from regular trading appears to be continuing. Here’s what you need to know. What you need to know: Serve Robotics stock has been in the spotlight since NVIDIA Corp NVDA announced last weekend that it was taking a 10% stake in the robotics company. The company’s shares have risen more than 500% since NVIDIA’s announcement. Serve Robotics went public through a reverse merger with Patricia Acquisition Corp. According to TechCrunch, Serve Robotics originally started as Postmates’ robotics division. Autonomous sidewalk robots began making deliveries to Postmates…

CHICAGO (CBS) – The long-vacant U.S. Steel South Works site on the Far South Side will be transformed into a massive quantum computing campus.City and state officials announced Thursday that PsyQuantum will build the new Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, which will be home to the world’s first commercially useful quantum computer. Chicago, Illinois – circa 1939: Men work at the Southworks Steel Works in Chicago, Illinois. Michael Ochs Archive / Getty Images “This monumental project will revolutionize everything from healthcare to clean energy technology, creating countless jobs and spurring economic growth in the process. Together, we will solidify Chicago’s…

Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that one-third of nuclear power plants are in negotiations with technology companies to power new data centers. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs predicts that AI will increase data center electricity use by 160% between now and 2030, which would more than double current carbon emissions. It’s estimated that each ChatGPT query consumes at least 10 times more energy than a Google search. The question is whether the exponentially growing costs of training AI models will ultimately limit AI’s potential. At VB Transform 2024, a panel led by Hyunjun Park, co-founder and CEO of CATALOG,…

Palo Alto-based startup PsiQuantum is coming to Chicago to build and operate quantum computers, creating up to 150 jobs over the next five years and becoming the home of a massive quantum campus being built on the former U.S. Steel South Works factory site on Chicago’s south side, the company announced July 25. PsiQuantum aims to build the first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer in the United States and plans to build a 300,000-square-foot quantum computing operations center on a long-vacant industrial site near the mouth of the Calumet River. The campus, known as the Illinois Quantum Microelectronics Park, will also…

A company is planning to build the largest quantum computing facility in the U.S. PsiQuantum is partnering with the state of Illinois, Cook County, and the city of Chicago to build the facility. The fault-tolerant quantum computing facility will be built on the site of the former U.S. Steel South Works in Chicago.It is widely accepted that a practical-scale quantum computer would require one million qubits, the number needed to reach the critical threshold for quantum error correction. By implementing such systems, it will be possible to produce extremely accurate answers to computational problems that could never be solved by…

Last week, a glitch in a software update disrupted key sectors of the global economy, leaving travelers stranded at airports, patients waiting in hospitals and customers stranded outside banks with cash. The historic outage was caused by a faulty update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and affected millions of computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Laura DeNardis is Professor and Endowed Chair of Technology, Ethics and Sociology and Director of the Center for Digital Ethics. “One of the lessons from this incident is just how destructive a wide range of malicious cyberattacks can be,” said Laura DeNardis, professor and endowed…

A former steel mill on Chicago’s Far South Side is poised to enter the 21st century as a cutting-edge technology hub thanks to a $300 million investment from the state of Illinois.As Crain’s reports, the state and its development partners have chosen the former U.S. Steel Southworks plant on Lake Michigan as the site for a 128-acre quantum computing campus. Silicon Valley startup PsiQuantum will be at the center of the development, occupying 300,000 square feet with ambitions to build the largest quantum computer in the country.The state of Illinois will invest $300 million in the campus and provide $200…